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@@ -22,5 +22,25 @@ Community: Preventing wrongdoing: potentially flawed. Reference prohibition. ## How much law is there -- find source -- anarchist handbook: ? + But the question of time is not the only difficulty. If you demand my + assent to any proposition, it is necessary that the proposition should be + stated simply and clearly. So numerous are the varieties of human + understanding, in all cases where its independence and integrity are + sufficiently preserved, that there is little chance of any two men coming + to a precise agreement, about ten successive propositions that are in their + own nature open to debate. What then can be more absurd, than to + present to me the laws of England in fifty volumes folio, and call upon + me to give an honest and uninfluenced vote upon their contents? + + But the social contract, considered as the foundation of civil + government, requires of me more than this. I am not only obliged to + consent to all the laws that are actually upon record, but to all the laws + that shall hereafter be made. It was under this view of the subject that + Rousseau, in tracing the consequences of the social contract, was led to + assert that “the great body of the people in whom the sovereign + authority resides can neither delegate nor resign it. The essence of that + authority,” he adds, “is the general will; and will cannot be represented. + It must either be the same or another; there is no alternative. The + deputies of the people cannot be its representatives; they are merely its + attorneys. The laws which the community does not ratify in person, are + no laws, are nullities.”[iii] |